ppl. a. [f. VERTEBRATE a. + -ED.]
1. = VERTEBRATE a. 1. Freq. in vertebrated animal(s).
1828. Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., I. 371. Vertebrated animals with cold red blood, respiring by gills or branchiæ.
1835. J. Duncan, Beetles (Nat. Lib.), 74. Certain relations of analogy which some of the species are thought to bear to the vertebrated tribes.
1849. Saxe, Poems (1873), 120. One of those vertebrated vermin That lie in the grass so prettily curled.
1874. Carpenter, Ment. Phys., I. ii. § 57 (1879), 57. The Vertebrated series, of which Man is the highest representative.
2. Consisting of, provided with, vertebræ.
1863. Dana, Man. Geol., 276. All these ancient fishes [Ganoids] have vertebrated tails.
1864. Bowen, Logic, x. 323. Among inorganic bodies,… the metallic property is an instance of the former class; among animals, the possession of a vertebrated column or backbone.
3. transf. Constructed in a manner suggestive of vertebræ.
1840. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., III. 56/2. A vertebrated carriage … left the station at Euston Square with one of the trains for Birmingham. Ibid. The vertebrated carriage … adapted itself to all curves with the greatest facility.
